Type, Image , Composition 6: Physical Typography

For this workshop a loaf of sliced bread is required. With the loaf the task was to, in pairs, create an alphabet to ultimately be turned into a stop motion animation of all 26 letters. Considering the material we have (bread) what limitations this sets and equally what does it leave open for exploration. Starting with a letter like “R” (which contains components that can be used in other letters such as the stem, bowl/counter and a leg/tail) experiment with the different ways in which you can build a letter with bread. The scale of the font must be larger than a single slice of bread to allow for more creative and experimental thinking. After trying to make the letters flat and building them up we settled on a way of building each letter from squares of bread (approximately 1/6 of a slice) this method was taken forward to create the stop motion animation of all 26 letters.

bread alphabet from Eve Whelan on Vimeo.